S | M01, Assignment 3

What is an advantage of the shared services structure?

• Strategic partnering opportunities
• Efficient use of HR expertise
• Duplication of effort
• Reduced staff requirements

Examples of economic factors affecting organizations (choose 2 out of 5)

• unemployment rate
• immigration
• trade restrictions
• public health
• inflation rate

A potential benefit of big data for HR is _______.

• less reliance on analytics.
• better-quality lessons learned from technology projects.
• superior data security and scalability.
• improved strategic analysis.

One of the following is a warning environmental scanning factor for business expansion in new locations.

• high purchase power customers
• labor market shortage
• availability of new technologies that can make organization more efficient
• weak competition

which of the following make the environment MORE certain rather than uncertain?

• Unstable demand for the organization's product or service
• Numerous government regulations constraining the organization's actions
• Unreliable resources and supplies
• Frequent technological breakthroughs in the industry

To achieve labor cost reduction and increased productivity during a merger and acquisition, an organization would focus on:

• avoiding tariffs on imports.

• diversifying product lines.

• transferring technology capability.

• improving employee relations.

Revenue per FTE is considered a/an ___________

• employee metric.

• productivity metric.

• HR process metric.

• financial metric.

If the company has headcount of 100 employees as full-time employees, working 8hrs per day, 5 days per week. The annual revenues are $800,000, then the revenue per FTE equals ______.

• 8000
• 10000
• 4000
• 20000

During periods of high unemployment

• Absenteeism and turnover rates decrease

• Overall labor costs rise

• Equal employment opportunity goals are more difficult to reach

• Recruiting becomes more costly and difficult

Changing an organization's culture principally needs __________.

• benchmarking the company’s culture

• communication targeting only lower levels in organization

• sustaining company’s reward systems

• top management and other opinion leaders’ support